TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 24581
SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo S190517h: ANTARES neutrino search
DATE: 19/05/17 14:28:44 GMT
FROM: Alexis Coleiro at APC/U. Paris Diderot
M. Ageron (CPPM/CNRS), B. Baret (APC/CNRS), A. Coleiro (APC/Universite Paris Diderot), M. Colomer (APC/Universite Paris Diderot)), D. Dornic (CPPM/CNRS), A. Kouchner (APC/Universite Paris Diderot), T. Pradier (IPHC/Universite de Strasbourg) report on behalf of the ANTARES Collaboration:
Using on-line data from the ANTARES detector, we have performed a follow-up analysis of the recently reported LIGO/Virgo S190517h event using the 90% contour of the initial bayestar probability map provided by the GW interferometers (GCN#24570). The ANTARES visibility at the time of the alert, together with the 50% and 90% contours of the probability map are shown in http://antares.in2p3.fr/users/pradier/S190517h.png . Considering the location probability provided by the LIGO/Virgo collaborations, there is a 83.3% chance that the GW emitter was in the ANTARES **upgoing** field of view at the time of the alert.
No up-going muon neutrino candidate events were recorded in the ANTARES sky during a +/- 500s time-window centered on the time (2019-05-17 05:51:01 UT) and in the 90% contour of the S190517h event. The expected number of atmospheric background events in the region visible by ANTARES is 3e-4 in the +/- 500s time window. An extended search during +/- 1 hour gives no up-going muon neutrino coincidence. The expected number of atmospheric background events in the region visible by ANTARES is 2.13e-3 in this larger time window.
ANTARES is the largest undersea neutrino detector, installed in the Mediterranean Sea, and it is primarily sensitive to neutrinos in the TeV-PeV energy range. At 10 TeV, the median angular resolution for muon neutrinos is about 0.5 degrees. In the range 1-100 TeV ANTARES has a competitive sensitivity to this position in the sky.